11/20/2022 0 Comments Ux apps icon![]() ![]() This seems like it is the oldest occurrence (excluding Xerox) of the hamburger icon as a menu button. ![]() It is unclear what app used it first but some of the first apps that people remember using the hamburger icon are: Voice Memos from iOS With the new, much smaller, interface that smartphones had, designers had to look for a way to make everything fit onto a 4-inch screen. (or possibly 13×13… can’t remember exactly)Īfter the Xerox Star, however, the hamburger icon disappeared for some time. I think we only had 16×16 pixels to render the image. ![]() With so few pixels to work with, it had to be very distinct, yet simple. Its graphic design was meant to be very “road sign” simple, functionally memorable, and mimic the look of the resulting displayed menu list. Source: Brad Myers on Vimeoįrom there he e-mailed mister Norm Cox, who was delighted to share the origin story for the hamburger icon. This was made in 1990, sponsored by the ACM CHI 1990 conference, to tell the history of widgets up until then. Geoff Alday is the amazing software designer who went searching for the creator of the hamburger icon and managed to find this video. He also happened to design the document icon for the same interface. Norm Cox is the co-founder of Cox&Hall and has been an interaction/experience design consultant since 1982. The hamburger icon was designed by Norm Cox for the Xerox Star, the world’s first graphical user interface. But more people have been wondering where it came from and how it got to be so widely used. Especially when it comes to UX design for a website. Lately, there has been much debate about whether the use of the hamburger icon and side menus, in general, is really a good idea. I’m even looking at it now on the top right corner of Google Chrome. It has become a staple in website and app design. As a matter of fact, most of us probably use it on a daily basis. ![]()
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